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I worry that some people believe this sort of rubbish. According to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) the average UK worker spends ninety minutes a week misusing corporate internet connections. The CBI said that workers are spending roughly an hour and a half out of their week visiting web sites that have no relation to their work whatsoever. Cumulatively, it said, this costs UK businesses some Â£10.6bn in lost productivity over the course of a year. The CBI polled…

For anyone following the story in the UK press, and the churn in the blogosphere, it would seem the internet blogger who published accounts of life as a civil servant at the heart of the Brown Government has been identified and suspended, as reported in the Daily Mail. Known by the pseudonym Civil Serf, she is a middle manager in the Department for Work and Pensions. All a bit sad really; it was certainly one of the more entertaining blogs…